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Description of Approved License Type

Type I

The financial instrument business deals with highly liquid securities and provides derivative transactions, which have characteristics.

As mentioned above, the main business content of the first type of financial instrument business operators can be roughly summarized as securities business (securities, securities CFD, etc.), financial futures business (FX), derivative trading business related to cryptocurrencies, securities management, etc. The work can be divided into four categories.

Type II

The financial instrument business basically refers to funds (shares of collective investment plans), trust beneficiary rights with lower liquidity, that is, financial instrument transactions excluding major securities such as stocks and corporate bonds. These are referred to as "equivalent securities" in the various items listed in the second paragraph of Article 2 of this Sale Business Law (hereinafter referred to as "equivalent securities").

In addition, the self-issuance (private placement and public offering) of certain securities such as investment trust beneficiary rights that are not regarded as securities, currency-related market derivative transactions, etc. are also positioned as Type II financial instrument business.